Trader Ratings v1.2.0

Trader Ratings - A user feedback hack
Copyright ?2004 Jason Rabel, All Rights Reserved.
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Latest TR Verson: 1.2.0
vB Versions: 3.0.0 - 3.0.9
Author: Jason Rabel
Contact: PM me here, I'll respond.
Site: EXTREME Overclocking
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Updates:
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1.2.0 - September 4, 2004
- Added Trader Ratings Stats Page (finally!)
- Added PM notification when someone receives feedback
- Changed how positive feedback percentage score is calculated (bugfix)
- Ability to "close" the Trader Ratings pages (for maintainence or whatever) - TRATING_CLOSED
- Ability to set the URL field when submitting feedback to required or optional - TRATING_REQ_URL

1.1.0 - June 7, 2004
- Added time-based user edit/delete abilities, set via TRATING_UEDIT constant in traderratings.php file
- Userdate field is now an int field to be consistent with vBulletin
- Userrating field changed to tinyint to save space
- Fixed timeframes for showing historical ratings
- Made some various code consolidation
- Added missing ".TABLE_PREFIX." statement
- Templates.txt file shows code for postbit & MEMBERINFO, with conditional examples
- All 3 templates changed heavily
- Added some more phrases & fixed missing phrases

1.0.1 - June 2, 2004
- Fixed a "divide by zero" display error
- Postbit template fixed so guests do not have a trader rating

1.0.0 - June 1, 2004
- Initial Public Release

Description:
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Trader Ratings has evolved from my vB2 Buy/Sell/Trade User Rating System. This is a rating system for when members buy / sell / trade items from each other (presumably on a FS section of your forum). It is based on the honor system since there is no way to truly tell if they did engage in a transaction. (But I'm working on a way to fix that.) Trader Ratings came about because it was a pain to try and maintain a single thread listing good / bad traders and so far has worked out quite well.

Features:
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? Rate another member: Positive / Negative / Neutral
? Specify Buyer, Seller, or Trade
? Leave comments about the deal
? Records date when rating created
? Specify a URL to the deal
? Display ratings over time
? Filter based on Buyer/Seller/Trade/or feedback they left for others
? Users can edit/delete ratings left for others (time based limitation)
? Admins & Mods can edit/delete anyone's ratings (just incase)
? Stats page showing best & worst rated members, and recent ratings
? PM notification when a person is rated

Basic Info:
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I haven't written a FAQ or any real documentation yet, but the way the system works is very simple. The only part that might confuse someone is that the Feedback Score is based only on UNIQUE members. Also, there are simple checks in place to make sure they actually do select proper info and enter a comment. A user is not able to rate themself (obviously). Permissions for viewing / rating are similar to standard forum viewing / posting permissions. Also it checks to make sure users exist and all that good stuff.

Installation Info:
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This hack is very simply to implement requiring only:
? 1 new file
? 5 new templates / 2-3 template changes (navbar, posbit/postbit_legacy, MEMBERINFO, memberlist_resultsbit)
? 52 new phrases
? 1 new DB table / 1 table DB change & index

An install/upgrade PHP file is included to do all the template/phrase/DB stuff, so basically you run that, upload the file, and edit your postbit template. BAM!

Screen Shots / Demos:
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See Screenshots below, or you can view them on my forums: My Trader Rating Page

Standard Disclaimer:
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BACKUP YOUR DATABASE & FILES BEFORE IMPLEMENTING THIS HACK!!!

Forums Using This Hack:
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EXTREME Overclocking Forums
i-Club -- Forums
Accord Tuner
NSX Prime
Honda-Acura.net
Guns Network
PimpRig

(PM me your forum if you want me to add you to the list)

Donations:
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This hack will always be free, however your donations are kindly accepted and will help towards further development. If you donate, please leave me some info (either your forum site or username at vB.org) so that I can thank you.


Plans For Future Releases:
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? rebuttal / followup comments
? item description (possibly instead of thread url)
? button on thread that buyer/seller clicks to tie the transaction to two people

[oldfan]

[high]* oldfan drools
[/high]

Originally Posted by eoc_Jason

Yes, I am working on a new version, but it is *kind* of a major overhaul from this version. Part of the problem is I don't have much free time, and this is a "free" add-on, so it is low on my priority list, so I don't know when the next version will be released.

[javageek]

A cool new feature would be to do batch ratings. Sometimes on my site we have people sell decals to 100 people or more, if they could just put a check next to the peoples name and fill out one comment that would be cool. I don't have a clue as to how hard it would be to implement though.

[TurboTwoLiter]

will this work with 3.0.6 by chance?

[fuse3k]

Noob question:

How do you ADD feeddback to a user? I have it showing their trader rating on the memberlist, postbit, etc, and the traderraatings page works fine but I can't figure out the steps to add feedback to a member. Thanks.

[Keyser S?ze]

click on their trader rating, per say in the post bit, like this "Trader rating (2)" id click the 2

that goes to their display page and there u will see a link for "add trade feedback" or soemthing like that

pretty smple

Originally Posted by TurboTwoLiter

will this work with 3.0.6 by chance?

sure will, my forum is running 3.0.6 and it works just fine

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just a thought, i think this looks better myself, i changed the positive and negative icons to these, (attached in case u want them)

[fuse3k]

Originally Posted by Keyser S?ze

click on their trader rating, per say in the post bit, like this "Trader rating (2)" id click the 2

that goes to their display page and there u will see a link for "add trade feedback" or soemthing like that

pretty smple

I don't have that link displayed on the Trader Ratings page. If I try to manually add it in the address bar it tells me I don't have permissions. Any ideas?

[Keyser S?ze]

this link right here, how could u not have it

[fuse3k]

Originally Posted by Keyser S?ze

this link right here, how could u not have it

Beats me, Everything else is being displayed except for the link to add feedback. If I try to go to it directly by point to traderratings.php?u=1&do=feedbacknew it get the message:

Brian, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

[Keyser S?ze]

go download this hack again and reupload traderrating.php

[fuse3k]

I didn't modify the traderratings.php file at all so I can't see how that would do anything. Any other ideas?